1. Kathryn Ann Watt was born on 11 September 1964 and is an Australian racing cyclist who won two medals at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona, Spain.
13 Facts About Kathy Watt
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Kathy Watt has won 24 national championships in road racing, track racing, and mountain bike, four Commonwealth Games gold medals, and came third in the world time trial championship.
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Kathy Watt was made a life member of Blackburn Cycling Club in 1990.
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Kathy Watt was an Australian Institute of Sport scholarship holder.
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Kathy Watt began to train on a bike after achilles tendon problems.
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In 1996, Watt was in a legal dispute with the Australian Cycling Federation over who would race the pursuit in the Olympic Games.
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Kathy Watt had been told that she would be but was replaced a few days before the event by Lucy Tyler-Sharman.
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Kathy Watt appealed to the International Court of Arbitration for Sport, claiming a breach of contract.
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The court ordered Kathy Watt to be reinstated in the race.
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In 2000, Kathy Watt again became involved in a controversy over a selection, but this time she was not successful in her appeal to the CAS.
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Kathy Watt retired after 2000 but came back three years later but was not successful in an attempt to qualify for the 2004 Olympics.
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Kathy Watt holds a Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Melbourne, with a major in physiology and pathology.
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Kathy Watt attended Tintern Church of England Girls' Grammar, now Tintern Grammar.